Focusing Competing Priorities When Each Workplace Leader Is Right
Cannabis legalization is causing competing priorities among workplace leaders. Whose viewpoint should be the priority when each leader’s view has merit?
Topics: Cannabis Testing, Employers, Legislation, The Workplace, Workplace Policies
Media Type: CASEI MALONE, , Hound Labs Blog
Can I Be Blunt? Three Things to Keep in Mind on 4/20
In 1971, five teens met up weekly at 4:20 to search for illicit cannabis. In doing so, they created a “high” holiday, observed by millions today as 420.
Topics: 420, Cannabis Testing, National Drug Testing Day, Safety Sensitive, The Workplace, Trends
Media Type: JAIME FEINBERG, , Hound Labs Blog
10 Years of Cannabis Reform: Where Do We Go Next?
Looking back a decade later, the lack of cannabis education continues to create serious risks and blind spots for employers, employees, and communities.
Topics: Cannabis Testing, The Workplace
Media Type: JENNY LYNN, , Hound Labs Blog
Specimen Custody and Control – A Critical Component in Workplace Testing
Custody and Control of a specimen are critical to supporting the defensibility of a workplace drug test; however, many people just consider it pesky paperwork.
Topics: Cannabis Testing, Law Enforcement, The Workplace, Workplace Policies
Media Type: NINA M. FRENCH, , Hound Labs Blog
The Benefits of Drug Testing Remote Workers
As companies continue to accommodate more employees working from home, they must adapt how they approach many processes and policies – including drug testing.
Topics: Cannabis Testing, Employers, The Workplace, Workplace Policies
Media Type: TRICIA O'CONNOR, , Hound Labs Blog
Could Testing Breath for Cannabis Help Avoid a Catastrophic Safety Accident?
In the last 5 years, there has been a 60% increase in the number of employees getting high at work – according to an EHS Today article, High Reliability Organizations anticipate and respond to avoid catastrophic safety risk.
Topics: Cannabis Testing, Testing Industry, The Workplace
Media Type: NINA M. FRENCH, , Hound Labs Blog, Selected Media
Impacts of Cannabis Legalization: Insights from the Insurance Industry
An interview with Jaime Feinberg, Vice President of Risk Control with Captive Resources, LLC (CRI) – insurance consultants who empower best-in-class companies to seize control of their insurance programs, lower costs, and develop safer workplaces.
Topics: Cannabis Testing, Guest Blogs, The Workplace
Media Type: JENNY LYNN, , Hound Labs Blog
Windows of impairment and detection
“In many states, employees have the legal right to use recreational cannabis,” Lynn says. “Someone could smoke at a barbecue on a Saturday, and risk testing positive [for THC in their blood] on Monday morning.” And their urine and hair would test positive for weeks.”
Topics: Cannabis Testing, Employers, The Workplace
Media Type: 3rd Party, , Print News
Think Twice Before Abandoning Cannabis Testing
Guest Contributor Christine M. Jensen shares that despite short-term challenges, the best long-term strategy for employers and employees is to continue cannabis testing.
Topics: Cannabis Testing, Guest Blog, Guest Blogs, Testing Industry, The Workplace
Media Type: CHRISTINE M. JENSEN, , Hound Labs Blog
Rethinking Pre-Access Testing
Pre-access testing is flexible, cost effective, and well suited for workplace drug testing programs in the era of cannabis legalization.
Topics: Cannabis Testing, The Workplace
Media Type: NINA M. FRENCH, , Hound Labs Blog